We study the dynamics of the Naming Game [Baronchelli et al., (2006) J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P06014] in empirical social networks. This stylized agentbased model captures essen...
Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full kno...
The formation of internet-based social networks has revived research on traditional social network models as well as interest-matching, or match-making, systems. In order to autom...
Distributed mechanisms that regulate the behavior of autonomous agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) are of high interest since we cannot employ centralized approaches relying...
The organizational architecture of the multi-agent systems and the structure of social knowledge that the members of the community administer are critical factors for assuring suc...